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alittlecurryhot
alittlecurryhot

Reputation: 497

Unable to call JSON data from Hacker News API

I'm trying to use Hacker News API , i am able to call the API and make the request to fetch the stories. As per their API documentation the source URL must contain the ID(required) to access the stories' content, I am getting the correct URL in the console and clicking on the URL gives the appropriate JSON but beyond that I am unable to use/call the JSON content like author name,title etc.

JS CODE:

var records;
var userRecords;
var fileJson;
var startRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
var sourceUrl = "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/";
var sourceUrlAdd = "showstories.json";
var finalURL = sourceUrl + sourceUrlAdd;

startRequest.open("GET",finalURL);
startRequest.onload = function() {
    fileJson = JSON.parse(startRequest.responseText);
    for(var i = 0 ; i < fileJson.length; i++) {
        userRecords = sourceUrl + fileJson[i] + ".json";
    }
}
startRequest.send();

How do I make it work??

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1300

Answers (1)

SPlatten
SPlatten

Reputation: 5762

Looking at the information on: GitHub

Your URL in the loop should be modified to:

    for(var i = 0 ; i < fileJson.length; i++) {
       userRecords = sourceUrl + "/item/" + fileJson[i] + ".json";
    }

Your code doesn't look complete as the loop will just overwrite userRecords for every iteration, if you want to store them:

    userRecords = [];
    for(var i = 0 ; i < fileJson.length; i++) {
       userRecords.push(sourceUrl + "/item/" + fileJson[i] + ".json");
    }

The above will give you an array populated with all the results.

For example this is the content from the first item in the userRecords array:

    {"by":"ntrippar"
    ,"descendants":45
    ,"id":15853345
    ,"kids"[15858055,15854752,15856479,15854664,15858253,15856298,15854305,15855332,15858118,15857061,15854116]
    ,"score":159
    ,"time":1512494533
    ,"title":"Show HN: SeKey: An SSH Agent for OS X, Using Secure Enclave and TouchID, in Rust"
    ,"type":"story"
    ,"url":"https://github.com/ntrippar/sekey"}

If you parse the above it will translate into an object.

Upvotes: 2

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